The Most Difficult Instrument To Play In

I Believe That From That Earth Emerges A Musical Poetry, Which Is By The Nature Of Its Sources Tonal. I Believe That These Sources Cause To Exist A Phonology Of Music, Which Evolves From The Universal Known As The Harmonic Series.

When I Am With Composers, I Say I Am A Conductor. When I Am With Conductors, I Say I Am A Composer.

I'm Not Interested In Having An Orchestra Sound Like Itself. I Want It To Sound Like The Composer.

This Will Be Our Reply To Violence: To Make Music More Intensely, More Beautifully, More Devotedly Than Ever Before.

Conducting Is Like Making Love To A Hundred People At The Same Time.